Unprecedented Global Monetary Policy As World Trade Volume Craters

With the IMF cutting its global growth forecasts and signs of slowing evident in the dramatic contraction in World Trade Volume in the last few months, it is perhaps no surprise that the central banks of the world have embarked upon what Goldman Sachs calls an ‘Unprecedented Alignment of Monetary Policy Across Countries’. Our earlier discussion of the European event risk vs global growth expectations dilemma along with last night’s comments on the impact of tightening lending standards around the world also confirms that this policy globalization is still going strong and is likely to continue as gaming out the situation (as Goldman has done) left optimal CB strategy as one-in-all-in with no benefit to any from migrating away from the equilibrium of ‘we all print together’. Perhaps gold (and silver’s) move today (and for the last few months) reflects this sad reality that all your fiat money are belong to us, as nominal prices rise (but underperform PMs) in equities (and risky sovereigns and financials).